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testimonies

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Every paragraph the index cites under testimonies, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

1:3.8I come forth from the Eter­nal, and I have re­peat­edly re­turned to the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. I know of the ac­tu­al­ity and per­son­al­ity of the First Source and Cen­ter, the Eter­nal and Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. I know that, while the great God is ab­so­lute, eter­nal, and in­fi­nite, he is also good, di­vine, and gra­cious. I know the truth of the great dec­la­ra­tions: “God is spirit” and “God is love,” and these two at­tri­butes are most com­pletely re­vealed to the uni­verse in the Eter­nal Son.

1:7.9[Pre­sented by a Di­vine Coun­selor, a mem­ber of a group of ce­les­tial per­son­al­i­ties as­signed by the An­cients of Days on Uversa, the head­quar­ters of the sev­enth super­uni­verse, to super­vise those por­tions of this forth­com­ing rev­e­la­tion which have to do with af­fairs be­yond the bor­ders of the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don. I am com­mis­sioned to spon­sor those pa­pers por­tray­ing the na­ture and at­tri­butes of God be­cause I rep­re­sent the high­est source of in­for­ma­tion avail­able for such a pur­pose on any in­hab­ited world. I have served as a Di­vine Coun­selor in all seven of the super­uni­verses and have long resided at the Par­a­dise cen­ter of all things. Many times have I en­joyed the su­preme plea­sure of a so­journ in the im­me­di­ate per­sonal pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. I por­tray the re­al­ity and truth of the Fa­ther’s na­ture and at­tri­butes with un­chal­lenge­able au­thor­ity; I know whereof I speak.]

6:8.8The Eter­nal Son is a grand and glo­ri­ous per­son­al­ity. Al­though it is be­yond the pow­ers of the mor­tal and ma­te­rial mind to grasp the ac­tu­al­ity of the per­son­al­ity of such an in­fi­nite be­ing, doubt not, he is a per­son. I know whereof I speak. Times al­most with­out num­ber I have stood in the di­vine pres­ence of this Eter­nal Son and then jour­neyed forth in the uni­verse to ex­e­cute his gra­cious bid­ding.

28:4.114. The Voice of the An­gelic Hosts. The fourth pri­mary se­con­a­phim and ev­ery sev­enth se­rial prove to be an­gels pe­cu­liarly re­spon­sive to the sen­ti­ments of all or­ders of an­gels, in­clud­ing the super­na­phim above and the ser­a­phim be­low. Thus the at­ti­tude of any com­mand­ing or super­vis­ing an­gel is im­me­di­ately avail­able for con­sid­er­a­tion at any coun­cil of the An­cients of Days. Never a day passes on your world that the chief of ser­a­phim on Uran­tia is not made con­scious of the phe­nom­e­non of re­flec­tive trans­fer­ence, of be­ing drawn upon from Uversa for some pur­pose; but un­less fore­warned by a Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger, she re­mains wholly ig­no­rant of what is sought and of how it is se­cured. These min­is­ter­ing spir­its of time are con­stantly fur­nish­ing this sort of un­con­scious and cer­tainly, there­fore, un­prej­u­diced tes­ti­mony con­cern­ing the end­less ar­ray of mat­ters en­gag­ing the at­ten­tion and coun­sel of the An­cients of Days and their as­so­ciates.

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See also judgment

Cited alongside: Divine Counselors, Universal Father, authority